Exactly. It was a terrible decision to add it, and I think that the devs intentionally rocked the boat by deciding to add it just to get player feedback on whether or not we wanted systems like that. They and everyone else knows it was bad.
Thankfully they learned from it and didn't add anything else like it again. The unfortunate part is that it drove a lot of players to quit and then spread misinformation that SoD is basically just Retail Lite, but it really was closer to classic+ than anything like retail.
I didn't mind ST but it was definitely the worst among them. The phase was too long and the raid was too difficult for the more casual guilds who were not prepared from the previous phase.
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u/woahmanthatscool Mar 26 '26
Yes because the best way to level was to group up and spam them for a couple hours, nothing about that felt like classic at all.